The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1887-09-08
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" hs', ~: who, will our governor be?
gGttcn crops ere reported short.
CASTOR county has just won a law
suit of $4,000.
Asheville will have gas in three
weeks.
Mr.. Howard Brown has retired
frern The Wilson Mirror.
Asheville is TO have tinware fac
tory, with N. G. Keller as proprietor
Trinity College opened with over
80 students, the best opening fos
years.
The State University opened with
over 130, besides law and medical stu
dents.
Greensboro Female College has
over 80 boarding pupils. The senior
class numbers thirty six.
Capt. w. A. Bobbitt, Of Oxford,
will be the handsome Chiaf Marshal
of the Weldon Fair THIS year.
The Raleigh Bric., & Tile NJ nu-
facturipg Co., capital stock $4,000, has
been Incorporated.
DR.. E. ". Pugh has assumed
charge ofthe political and literary de-
par.ments of the Windsor Public Led
ger
The genial DIR. Blacknall, of Raj
eigh, will have charge of the Ats ,4ic
| Hotel next summer.
The latest yarn about Cleveland is
that he is going to visit Asheville
| Don't believe it.
dajor II. 2. Jones, of Hillsboro.
I as recieved an order for smoking to-
bacco from Malta, an island in the
Mediterranean Sea.
DIR. Eugene Grissom has tendere.
his resignation as Surgeon Genel al Of
the State. He fears that he is ~.
able to attend to its duties at such
times as troops are called out.
John Nichols i. socially and poii.i
cally dead. Josephus Daniels pre-, ca
ed his funeral sermon in the Safe
| Chronicle. 1t is now time to bury
him. Dirt to dirt,-shovel it on and
pile it high.
The Franklin Press gives the fol-
lowing: "In Mr. j. Johnson's old
wooden store house last week, the
workmen found beneath the floor a
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four years old."2--
The AsheviIle e Tennessee R. r
has organized, with s. r. Kepler pres
ident. The line IS pa posed To ruin
from Asheville to an important point
in Tennessee, con,.ectiIg there With
the through lines from the west.
Mr.. Charles Smith. graduate Of
Wake Forest, wno is g1w taking Spe-
Gle course at Johns Hopkins, is writ
N. :, +" l., ool y of Education in NJrth
aro'ina.' He is an accomplished
young man.
The Piedmont Mining Company
has been organized in Charlotte by
the election of the following officers
J. l.. Chambers, president, r. NJ. Mil
: Ter, Jr., secretary, john W. Miller,
treasurer and manager. The compa-
ny is Incorporated, with d capt.
stock Of 100000.
J. b. Warren, Esq, of the firm o.
Warren & Pope, proprietors of tha
Globe Warehouse, Durham, mids as
signilent FOR the benefit Of his credit
ors. Liabilities $4,000, or theret-
bouts assets unknown, but suppose
to be nearly the equal of the liabiii
ties. This was an honest failure.
Mecklenburg county this year pay.
tax for all State purposes of f1A,
1906, against 5l9,311 ,67 IN 1880, ,
reduction in one year Of $4, ,5s2,61 il
State taxes. The school tax tbs yea.
: iss14,316,91, agalnsf S15,79S,85 las'
year, and there is corresponding re-
, duction in the county tax which va
S22, ,457 ,O4 in 1886. The coudty ply.
q total tax of 1856, ,58, ana OF thl.
sum Charlotte TOWNSHIP , alone pA.as}} )
A6S sc, or almost one half .. to
whole rax.s maid by t. county.